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Syria’s Interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa confirmed to Arab journalists he met on August 24 that his government was in “advanced” talks with Israel on a security agreement.
Sky News Arabic quoted Sharaa as saying that any deal would be based on the lines set under the United Nations-sponsored 1974 Agreement on Disengagement between Israel and Syria that followed the war of 1973.
Sharaa also said that while he did not believe the time was right for a peace deal with Israel, he “will not hesitate to take” any agreement that benefits Syria and the Middle East.
Following the fall of the regime of former President Bashar al-Assad last December, Israel challenged the 1974 agreement by taking over the buffer zone adjacent to the occupied Golan Heights in southern Syria. It also demanded the complete demilitarization of the region, and vowed to protect Druze there, citing its historic relations with its own Druze community.
Also on August 24, United States envoy Thomas Barrack arrived in Israel and met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss Syria, among other issues.
Barrack’s meeting with Netanyahu was first reported by Axios and followed discussions between the U.S. envoy, Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, and Defense Minister Israel Katz. U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee also reportedly joined the meetings
Last week, Syria confirmed that its foreign minister held a rare meeting with an Israeli delegation in the French capital, Paris.
The state-run Syrian Arab News Agency said that Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan al-Shaibani met with Israeli officials on August 19 to discuss “de-escalation and non-interference in Syria’s internal affairs, reaching understandings that support stability in the region, monitoring the ceasefire in al-Suwayda governorate, and reactivating the 1974 agreement.” Dermer led the Israeli delegation, according to Hebrew media.
A report by Israel Channel 12 on August 24 listed the principles of the security agreement expected to be signed by Syria and Israel.
The agreement would include, according to the report, the demilitarization of the Syrian side of the Golan Heights, the prevention of the restoration of the Syrian military, the barring of entry of any weapons into Syria that would threaten Israel, and the establishment of a humanitarian corridor to the Jabal al-Druze region of Syria.
In exchange for all of these concessions, the U.S. and Gulf countries will supposedly work on the rehabilitation of war-torn Syria.
The principles of the agreement indicate that Syria will not be allowed, for example, to rebuild its air force or air defenses. This would grant Israel the freedom of operations in the country, allowing it to use its airspace to launch strikes against Iran as it did last June.
The humanitarian corridor to Jabal al-Druze, formally known as the governorate of al-Suwayda, can be also interpreted as a first step towards the establishment of a breakaway state for Druze in southern Syria with the approval of Sharaa.
On August 25, Reuters reported that Sharaa is expected to address the UN General Assembly in New York coming September.
Recent reports had speculated that Sharaa could meet with Netanyahu during his visit to the United States to sign the security agreement in the presence of President Donald Trump, who already met the Syrian President in Saudi Arabia last May. With Sharaa confirming a progress in talks with Israel, this scenario appears to be very likely.
It remains unclear, however, how Sharaa’s supporters, who are mostly radical Islamists, would perceive such an agreement with Israel.
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rojovo kurdistan
selling arab oil and being rich country
same as qatar.
zionism rules.
antichrist rules.
democracy makes it possible.
sad but true.
i would like the uyghurs in china to do something so horrible that batwoman would be ordered by the communist party make something to kill all of syria.
if we’re lucky, the year 2026 will look something like this:
somewhere on the syrian border, a turkish, israeli, or lebanese border guard receives instructions:
be careful not to catch virus, because this virus is deadly and highly contagious.
how should i be careful if i’m always in contact with people?
shoot them before they get close to you!
only chinese atomic bombs can eliminate this filth from planet earth. syria needs to become a martian desert, with nothing but cacti in it, and even those would have to be radioactive.
these people are worse than any animal and it would be wonderful if their country turned into a desert.
er,dog,an feeding 10m arab refugees in turkey
and
erdogan’s money finished now.
this is why 70 percent of retirees in turkey receive 300 euros per month.
er,dog,an what to do now
started to selling weapons,warships to syria or 10m arabs in turkey will be so angry.
if he sent these arabs to europe,
europe will stop paying bribes every year to er,dog,an.
so better sell everything
turkish tax payers are rich
uyghurs are getting syrian documents. they might carry out a major terrorist attack in china. if we’re lucky, china will then strike back and turn syria into a martian desert.
syria submits. israel will consume it at leisure.
dr. anthony fauci wanted to get kill of libyans and homosexuals, so he created hiv. the bulgarian nurses and the palestinian doctor were friends of his accomplice robert gallo. i hope batwoman makes sure that they no longer teach uyghurs in syria how to destroy china.
iran will destroyed because it has dirty russia as an ally.